On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 20:11:57 +0200, terayamashuji wrote:
> That did the trick! Turns out the radeon module was not loaded at
> boot-time, probably it was not in the initrd. Loading the module and
> starting X.org with rotation enabled works now, as does XRandR.
> Sorry for opening a silly "bug" like this, but maybe this could be
> considered a real-world use-case for more explicit error messages ;-)
It's not supposed to be in the initrd, udev is supposed to load it after
the system's switched to the real root.
Cheers,
Julien